Telangana CM's new house has bullet-proof bathrooms, state-of-the-art facilities

Telangana CM's new house has bullet-proof bathrooms, state-of-the-art facilities

The reports said that due to security reasons, "bullet-proof" bathrooms have been constructed in the house.

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PTI

November 30, 1999

UPDATED: November 23, 2016 22:02 IST

Some media reports said the sprawling new residence, with state-of-the-art facilities, has come up over one lakh square feet space. (Photo: PTI)

HIGHLIGHTS

Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao to move into his new official residence.

New official residence has "bullet-proof" bathrooms for security reasons.

New residence

with state-of-the-art facilities

has come up over one lakh square feet space.

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao would move into his new official residence complex at Begumpet here in the early hours tomorrow.

Rao and his wife would perform the Griha Pravesam (house warming) at 5.22 AM tomorrow, official sources said.

Government has named the buildings complex -- two existing buildings being used by the Chief Minister, the newly-built CM residence, office and a conference hall -- as Pragati Bhavan, they said.

WHAT IS THE NEW RESIDENCE LIKE?

The new CM residence-camp office is built over an extent of 8.9 acres.

The new complex has three huge structures to house his residential accommodation, office and a multi-purpose hall with a seating capacity of 1,000 apart from two old structure.

The construction work started in March this year at an estimated cost of Rs 33 crore.

Nearly 200 workers have worked day and night to finish the construction on a record time.

The complex also has a parking lot for 200 cars and landscaping.

A protection wall, surrounding the complex for a length of 850 metres, has been erected while over 55 armed security guards have been deployed with state-of-the-art gadgets and weapon to guard the complex 24x7.

The residence and office are both ground and one buildings measuring 40,000 sq ft each.

The single floor multi-purpose hall to a height of 24 ft came up over 15 thousand sq ft.

Existing CM residence-camp office was built by the then CM YS Rajashekhar Reddy in 2005 and over 5 crore was spent to get a swanky office and residence for CM that time.

The conference hall has been named as Janahita. The Chief Minister would interact with different sections of society, including farmers, workers, employees and artisans, on formulation of policies and their implementation in Janahita.

Different rituals like Daiva Pravesam would be performed as part of the Griha Pravesam ceremony, the sources said. Prayers of different religions would also be performed on the occasion.

Governor of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana ESL Narasimhan and his wife would attend the event. Religious guru Tridandi Srimannarayana Chinna Jeeyar Swamy would also be present, the sources added.